Outside the Beltway

Democrats in South Carolina seem to think they have a shot at beating Lindsey Graham in 2020. I wouldn’t be so sure of that.

President Trump claims that November will see a “red wave” rather than the “blue wave” that most analysts are expecting. There’s no evidence to support his hypothesis.

The West Virginia Supreme Court has ruled that a candidate who lost the GOP primary for Senate cannot run as the nominee of another party due to the state’s “sore loser” law.

Argumentation without the intent to persuade is masturbation, not journalism.

Recent polls have caused Republicans to become more optimistic about their chances in this year’s midterms. That optimism is both premature and misplaced.

In many states, there aren’t really any races at all this year even if both parties have candidates on the ballot.

One analyst thinks that the predictions of a Republican Senate in 2014 are wildly optimistic.

Thanks to favorable polling numbers and candidate selection, winning the Senate may very well be in the GOP’s grasp.

Tonight, the American political system stops to engage in the biggest waste of time ever invented.

So far at least, the 2014 elections do not appear likely to be a political earthquake on the scale of 2006, 2008, or 2010.

The GOP’s latest investigatory crusade could end up backfiring on them.

So far, three weeks of bad news hasn’t really had much of an impact on the public’s view of how President Obama is handling his job.

The odds for a party switch in the House of Representatives remain quite low.

Tthere’s enough bad punditry going around that there’s no need to invent cases to expose.

We could be headed for another extremely close election where the Electoral Vote and the Popular Vote disagree with each other.

A new round of polling has Obama in the lead and shows reasons why Romney’s supporters should be concerned, but it’s unclear how long any of this will last.

Tonight’s convention speech is the most important speech Mitt Romney has ever given.

By failing to respond adequately, Mitt Romney is letting his opponent define him for the voters. That could hurt him greatly in November.

Absent something extraordinary, it’s unlikely that the GOP will lose control of the House.

A Northeastern Republican announces retirement. And GOP hopes for control of the Senate in 2013 become more tenuous.

Could things possibly get worse on Capitol Hill? Grover Norquist seems to relish the possibility.

The participants in the debt negotiations are being led by constituencies that have little interest in compromise.

Will the Ryan Plan ever be voted out of the House?

Can a candidate appealing enough to the base to win the Republican nomination beat Obama?

The 2012 GOP nominee will have to raise $300 million and assemble a top-notch staff.

Voters head to the polls in thirteen days, and current indications are that they’ll be handing a big victory to the Republican Party.

It’s looking less and less likely that the GOP will gain control of the Senate, but they’re going to come awfully close,, and that might be just as good from their point of view.

Christine O’Donnell’s victory in Delaware Tuesday has made it less likely that the GOP will be able to take control of the Senate, but they still have an excellent shot of making substantial gains that will transform Congress’s Upper House.

For most of the year, a GOP takeover in the Senate seemed beyond the realm of possibility. That’s no longer the case.

Another political analyst is out with a 2010 prediction that should make Democrats very nervous.

32 Democratic incumbents are running even or behind their Republican challengers in one or more public or private polls. At this point in 2006, when Republicans lost control of Congress, only 11 GOP incumbents were running even or behind.

The signs point to 2010 being an even worse year for Democrats than 1994.

Will Democrats use a lame-duck session of Congress to pass legislation they can’t get through otherwise ? They might try, but I doubt they’ll succeed.

The latest poll trends have pollster Charlie Cook thinking that the Democrats could be in for a very bad trouncing on Election Day.